Bill Text: NY A04679 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires local solid waste management plans for cities over one million to include a plan for litter control including provision for placement of an adequate number of receptacles for trash and recyclables in commercial and business zones and in public recreational areas.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A04679 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04679-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4679
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 5, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
siting and presence of adequate numbers of trash receptacles in
commercial zones and recreational areas in cities with a population of
one million or more
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 27-0107 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 70 of the laws of
3 1988, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) The local solid waste management plan shall:
5 (i) characterize the solid waste stream to be managed in the planning
6 period;
7 (ii) assess existing and alternate proposed solid waste management
8 programs and facilities;
9 (iii) address to the maximum extent practicable the comments and views
10 expressed by concerned governmental, environmental, commercial and
11 industrial interests and the public on the waste reduction, recycling,
12 reuse and disposal alternatives;
13 (iv) identify the parties with responsibility to implement each
14 element of the plan and the steps which must be undertaken by each;
15 (v) set forth a timetable for implementing the plan;
16 (vi) describe the participation in the preparation of the plan of each
17 municipality which has chosen to participate in such preparation; [and]
18 (vii) describe (A) measures undertaken by the municipalities partic-
19 ipating in the planning unit to secure participation of neighboring
20 jurisdictions, (B) the limitations, if any, imposed by the proposed plan
21 on solid waste management alternatives available to such neighboring
22 jurisdictions, and (C) alternatives which would be available if a local
23 solid waste management plan including such jurisdictions were prepared.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Specific written suggestions received from neighboring jurisdictions
2 shall be summarized and reflected in the plan; AND
3 (VIII) IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, A PLAN FOR
4 THE CONTROL OF LITTER, INCLUDING PROVISION FOR THE PLACEMENT OF AN
5 ADEQUATE NUMBER OF RECEPTACLES FOR TRASH AND RECYCLABLES LOCATED IN
6 COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS DISTRICTS AS DETERMINED BY THE SANITATION
7 COMMISSIONER OF SUCH CITY, AND PUBLIC RECREATIONAL AREAS SUCH AS PARKS,
8 ZOOS AND BOTANICAL GARDENS AS DETERMINED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PARKS
9 COMMISSIONER OF SUCH CITY.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the commissioner of
12 environmental conservation is authorized to promulgate any and all rules
13 and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this
14 act on its effective date on or before such date.
